Into The Wild 25. How to Go All In with Megan Tong
Megan Tong is the co-founder of a million-dollar business, Kanga, which is Toronto's first Australian-style meat pie company. She brought the restaurant to fame, with three locations and has been featured in the Toronto Star, Chatelaine magazine, BlogTO, and on The Social.
Ever since Megan was young, she envisioned becoming financially free. She always wanted to be able to decide what to do with her time, and not be chained to a desk. She achieved that at the age of 31.
She's passionate about giving back and helping solve world hunger, and co-organizes her local Taking Action Against Hunger, a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger.
After the sale of Kanga, she turned to coaching where she now works with my clients one on one, to have breakthroughs, and finally create the life they've always dreamed of.
"Never do anything half-assed. Always use your full ass." - Megan tong
In This Episode, You Will Learn About:
- Physical pain from rolling out dough to make meat pies (migraine)
- Advice: go where the people are!
- Not having proper controls in place, internal and external controls
- Name idea and business idea came up over a bottle of wine
- Started baking pies at a local festival
- Name: started with Meat Pie Mates
- How she sold the company in 2018
- How she fell out of love with the business and needed to move on
- If you're getting into business just to exit, it's not a good idea
- Got to get into business to BE in it
- Your thoughts not your actions create your results
- Growing the catering side of the business was a surprising revenue generator
- Know that it's possible, just take baby steps
Resources:
- Website: Megan Tong
- Instagram: @coachmegantong
Public shoutouts:
- Google Calendar
Being a wild woman:
"Having the courage to remember who you are" ~ Megan Tong
----Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.
She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.
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